GiGL will be playing an important role in Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), supporting the process with high quality data and expertise. As part of GiGL’s involvement, we have compiled a list of useful and important documents to help inform and exemplify BNG. These are...
Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director Welcome to the 9th edition of the GiGLer and the first version of our new ‘iGiGLer’. In this issue, we have moved away from PDF files, a sophisticated way of delivering information back in 2006, to this new web-based format. The new iGiGLer...
Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager GiGL’s flagship report, the ecological desktop study, presents a snapshot of the GiGL Partnership’s knowledge of a site or an area. The report is the culmination of a lot of time and effort to collate information about the whole...
Chloë Smith, GiGL Partnership Manager Achieving biodiversity net gain means that changes brought about by development conclude with biodiversity faring better than it did before works took place. This should ideally be at the same location, but where that is not...
London is constantly developing. With Biodiversity Net Gain, future developments will hopefully also benefit nature (A view over Croydon from Addington Hills, Geoff Henson CC BY-ND 2.0) Planning has a very important part to play in helping to protect and restore...
